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Although speech recognition is getting better and better, it keeps making mistakes that often annoy us. Much more than humans would do in similar situations. And we have been trying to make it better for decades. What’s wrong with it? Scientists are constantly testing and trying to improve speech recognition in adverse conditions, such as
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Some of you may remember the Apple’s knowledge navigator video posted here. It was released in 1987 as a vision of a future tight integration of advanced technologies on a flat tablet computer. The computer in this entertaining vision clip sports a fancy Web-like interface, a realistic avatar, touch screen with gesture recognition, teleconferencing, speech
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Speech recognition is one of those technologies who have been around for a while, but have never become mature enough to be considered established and part of everyday’s life like, instead, digital cameras, retina displays, and bluetooth. However, for a few years now speech recognition technology has be “sort-of” working so as some of us
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Can machines really think? This question has been haunting machine intelligence experts and philosopher way before today’s Siri’s speech understanding, and IBM Watson’s Jeopardy! question answering challenge. Even though today we are not thinking anymore about whether machines can think or not, the question was quite popular in the heydays of Artificial Intelligence, the cold war, and the pioneers of computer
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